Note: This post was delayed a couple weeks. Today Scott Stults and myself traveled up to DC to exhibit and attend the DoD Open Technologies Conference. We attended last year where Matt Jenks and myself spoke on Agile techniques for Green Field/Brown Field Enviroments. The conference has moved to the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center [...]
FOSE 2008 is over, and we’re all back home. Here are my observations from the final day of FOSE 2008: It would have been nice to have our people attending more sessions. Arin Sime got to attend a couple of sessions, and Eric Pugh saw the opening keynote speech, but it would have been nice [...]
The people who came by our booth yesterday seemed to represent a slightly different mindset than what we saw in Day 1. I can still categorize the attendees: People on a mission: They know what they want, and they’re very specific about what they are looking for. Questions like “Can you do J2EE” and “Are [...]
FOSE means: “Free/Open Source Expo” – *protected email*, Chairman of Sun Microsystems “Federal Open Source Expo” – *protected email*, Principal of OpenSource Connections When the chairman of a company that spends $2 Billion dollars yearly on R&D makes more or less the same joke that you do, it makes you see the kernal of truth [...]